{"id":10096,"date":"2020-07-05T22:58:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T05:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=10096"},"modified":"2020-07-05T22:58:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T05:58:48","slug":"ice-ice-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/07\/05\/ice-ice-cancelled\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Ice Cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a rather bland story, <strong><em>Vanilla Ice <\/em><\/strong>planned a concert in Austin called <strong><em>Independence Day Throwback Beach Party <\/em><\/strong>\u2013 even though it was taking place on Friday, July 3<sup>rd<\/sup>.&nbsp; While venues were shuttered, the beach is connected to a restaurant and doubles as a general admission concert space with a reduced capacity of 2,500 (down from the usual 5K).&nbsp; With all these loopholes, the show could go on\u2026but not without criticism.&nbsp; The <em>Travis County Health Department <\/em>issued the following warning: \u201cThe best way to be nostalgic is protecting your parents and grandparents and staying home.\u201d&nbsp; The event ended up being \u201cpostponed\u201d.&nbsp; The promoter said, \u201cDue to the increase in Covid-19 numbers in Austin, we\u2019re gonna move the concert to a better date.\u201d&nbsp; It should be noted that Ice played the same venue last year and sold 1,800 tickets.&nbsp; For this show, a whopping 84 tickets were sold!<\/p>\n<p>By the way, the people of Texas are getting real ornery about the pandemic.&nbsp; Since most public places have been shut down in light of the spiking number of Covid cases, a group of bar owners (once again in Austin) organized a grassroots movement called <strong><em>Bar Lives Matter<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; In addition to publicly protesting, they plan to sue the governor!&nbsp; These folk feel they\u2019re being singled out and vilified.&nbsp; \u201cNo other businesses are being shut down.&nbsp; It\u2019s wrong and affecting the livelihood of hundreds of thousands across the state.\u201d&nbsp; Not so fast \u2013 turns out the governor also shut down numerous rafting and tubing establishments.&nbsp; Back to the ol\u2019 swimming hole.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a rather bland story, Vanilla Ice planned a concert in Austin called Independence Day Throwback Beach Party \u2013 even though it was taking place on Friday, July 3rd.&nbsp; While venues were shuttered, the beach is connected to a restaurant and doubles as a general admission concert space with a reduced capacity of 2,500 (down<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10097,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10096\/revisions\/10097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}